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I enjoy it, and it’s great to have another modern high performance terminal as an option for macOS and Linux.

For me, Kitty still has the edge:

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

WezTerm is also a strong contender:

https://wezterm.org/

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When I tried Wezterm last year, you couldn't select more than 3-5 lines of text. I went to fix the 'bug', I found that it was intentional because it allocates a string and copies multiple times every time you click and drag.

Even if that's fixed, that design put me off the terminal forever.

Been using/abusing wezterm for years, my scrollback is set to 1000000 and text selection has never been a problem... copy mode however does make it even easier

I hed to look this up, so here's a correction: it was one large line logically split, not smaller lines. So you can't select, say, a long compact JSON line.

Still not fixed: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/3494

I regularly select hundreds of lines in Wezterm. I have never had a problem.

Wezterms is certainly nice. I guess they haven't release another update? Currently stick to iTerm2.

I switched from iTerm2 because at the time (possibly still), iTerm2 had a performance bug where large amounts of underlined text would cause the terminal to slow down noticeably. Wezterm works perfectly, and I appreciate the .lua configuration over iTerm2's mess of menus.

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